How Many Cousins Do You Have?

My father’s side of the family recently had a cousins reunion. Only about one third of all the cousins showed up, but that is still a lot! The twelve of us had a pretty nice afternoon of catching up. We met at a restaurant in west Georgia, and ate barbecue and “chewed the fat”.

So, in the photo above, there is Jimmy, Joyce, Robert and Carol from my Aunt Sarah’s bunch. Missing are Phillip and Buddy. Next, there is my brother Richard, Me, and my brother Hank in front next to me. My sister Linda and my brother Preston were absent. Behind me is my cousin Joe, his brother Andy in the red shirt next to him, and their sister Bonnie, Uncle Bill’s children. Uncle Herman’s two boys Ronnie and Steve are on the right side. Uncle Bud’s family (4 children), Uncle Bruce’s family (7 or 8 children), and Aunt Mary’s family (4 children) are not represented at all. I really wish more of my cousins had come.

Here are some more pictures from the reunion:

Andy’s family, with the youngest family member present, his 9 week old grandchild.

Joe, Carol, Hank

Joyce

Me and Steve

Jimmy and his wife Carletta

Me and Robert

Joyce and Joe

Robert and his wife, Carolyn

Me and Ronnie

My brothers, Richard and Hank

Fabgrandpa, Steve and Joe

Me and Bonnie

Brothers Steve and Ronnie

Richard and Joe

Jimmy, Joyce, Carol, Carolyn, Roy

I don’t know when the next reunion will be. Probably one year from now. I really hope that all of us are still on this earth and able to get together again.

What a fun gathering that would be. Over the summer some of us grandchildren got together for our grandmother. (sister was there so I was in heaven) There wasn’t many of us but we all brought our kids so it looked huge. I can only imagine if we could all just get together but being so spread out not sure. That’s great ya’ll could do this. 🙂

What a great time. There is nothing better then having a chance to reconnect with all your assorted family. The last time we had a family reunion there was close to 150 of us. My mom was the 11th child in her family. Lots and lots of cousins.

I love big family gatherings like this. I to come from a huge family. My mom is one of eight and my dad one of twelve. It takes us quite a bit to count all of the cousins and don’t know the current totals as some people are still having kids.

What a great post, Karen! Awesome that you guys get together like that.

I have 4 first cousins on my mom’s side and 3 on my dad’s side (though they’re a lot older and honestly, we don’t speak to that side of the family, so I haven’t seen them in probably 10 or 15 years.)

Funny, I started a First Cousins reunion about 4 or 5 years ago. Started small with just my family, my sister’s and 1 other cousin but we’ve had a few more since. We’ve yet to get all 6 of us first cousins together (5 was the most), but hopefully next year!